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Although, modern office spaces do provide open meeting areas which support informal gatherings, remember too that we also learn with others virtually – even when we are sitting on our own – so we also need to provide similar virtual informal (learning) spaces.
That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. The clear distinction between the Angry Birds community and the average workplace community-of-practice is obvious: the AB folks are making money for producing content. Probably not.
Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informallearning. Activity streams and collaboration platforms can enhance and support such awareness but not replace it.
Shawn Callahan of Anecdote covers collaboration and communities of practice. Visit the website and in the middle is a stream of the latest posts from all sources. I have these three resources that I can get a regular stream of and can easily navigate to find good stuff when I need it.
Jay Cross - father of the InformalLearning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. In order for a corporate learning organization to get into the business of supporting pull learning and supporting work, we need to 1. More on this below. But first some context.
Last night I went online to write a few pages of the InformalLearning 2.0 Like the pioneering Whole Earth Catalog, the InformalLearning 2.0 The InformalLearning 2.0 communities of practice, stealth learning, appreciative inquiry, and social networks. Fieldbook as I go.
Over a little more than a decade this developed into more mature forms of e-Learning. With the use of new media like video and flash animations we made e-Learning more attractive and interactive. But main stream e-learning is in most cases still a page turner with some nice interactive snacks in the middle.
The type of learning that is rapidly trending upward is informallearning. My choice of new tactics is applying the concept of a learning continuum that takes a holistic approach to the whole learning pie, and at the same time, embracing the potential of five different moments of learning need.
This morning, Mark Sylvester and I conversed online about informallearning. Here’s the Tweet stream. I think she talks about it in The Power of Mindful Learning. For more on communities of practice, visit CPsquare , the community of practice for communities of practice.
New online book on mobile learning -available for free download - Ignatia Webs , June 12, 2009. Informallearning patterns - InformalLearning , June 26, 2009. Where Organizations Go Wrong With e-Learning - MinuteBio , June 20, 2009. Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009.
Here are some things one might add to any training director’s job description: • Supporting the informallearning process. Supplementing self-directed learning with mentors and experts. Helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills. Explicitly teaching workers how to learn.
However, go to any training conference, including ASTD’s own International Conference and Exhibition, and you don’t hear much about instructor-led training or self-paced learning. Training is not the same as learning. Feeds, Tweets, streams. Apply the 80/20 rule to critical functions and seed communities of practice around them.
In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informallearning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informallearning but nobody’s against Working Smarter. Your organization already has a workscape where people are learning to work smarter. Access to information.
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